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I found all these studies showing that actual racism causes measurable disadvantages for people of color. Can you show me where antiracism causes anything close
by breakyerself 5y ago
I found all these studies showing that actual racism causes measurable disadvantages for people of color. Can you show me where antiracism causes anything close to a similar negative effect on society?
[1] Police stop black drivers significantly more than white drivers when the sun's up and they can see the driver is black, but not at night when they can't see the drivers race. Meaning race is often the determining factor for why someone is pulled over or not.
[2] Unarmed black people are 3.49 times as likely to be killed as unarmed white people. Local crime rates have zero effect on this statistic.
[3] Black and white police use force at similar rates in white neightborhoods, but white cops use force significantly more than black cops when responding to calls in minority neighborhoods.
[4] Police in oakland find contraband at the same rate regardless of race, but search black drivers 4x more often.
[5] The more white a suspect appears to be the less likely police are to use force. The more black a suspect appears the more likely it is that police will use force.
[6] Black police are more likely to be shot by their fellow officers than white police.
[7] Oaklad police disproportionately handcuff blacks at stunning levels in all areas of the city.
[8] In San Francisco, “although Black people accounted for less than 15 percent of all stops in 2015, they accounted for over 42 percent of all non-consent searches following stops.” This proved unwarranted: “Of all people searched without consent, Black and Hispanic people had the lowest ‘hit rates’ (i.e., the lowest rate of contraband recovered).”
[9] The DOJ investigation into Ferguson PD, found “a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson PD that violates the 1st, 4th, and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, and federal law.” The scathing report found that FPD was targeting black residents and treating them as revenue streams for the city by striving to continually increase the money brought in through fees and fines.
[10] In Chicago, a 2016 report found that “black and Hispanic drivers were searched approximately four times as often as white drivers, yet Chicago PDs own data show that contraband was found on white drivers twice as often as black and Hispanic drivers.”
[11]2014 ACLU analysis of Illinois DOT data found: “Black and Latino drivers are nearly twice as likely as white drivers to be asked during a routine traffic stop for ‘consent’ to have their car searched. Yet white motorists are 49% more likely than African American motorists to have contraband discovered during a consent search by law enforcement, and 56% more likely when compared to Latinos.”
[12] Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and more likely to be framed for a crime they didn't commit.
[13] Black kids are more likely to be tried as an adult.
[14] Black people get 20% longer prison sentences for the same crimes even controlling for criminal history.
[15] Black students are more likely to be arrested at school. A function of increased security at predominantly black schools. Not because black students commit crimes at school at higher rates.
[16] Security levels in schools are determined by how many black kids go to the school and not crime levels.
[17] Predominantly black schools are chronically underfunded compared to predominantly white schools.
[18] An identical resume with a white sounding name like Stephen or Susan is twice as likely to recieve a call for a job interview compared to the same resume with an ethnically black sounding name like Jamal or Latisha.
[19] Minorities who alter their resumes to seem white get more job interviews.
[20] Banks targeted black homeowners for predatory homeloans and refinancing in the lead up to the 2008 crisis. Causing black families to be disproportionately harmed by the forclosure crisis.
[21] owner-occupied homes in black neighborhoods are undervalued by $48,000 per home on average, amounting to $156 billion in cumulative losses. This study controls for crime rates. Neighborhood amenities like schools, parks, walkability, and public transportation. The size and age of homes etc.
[22] In an experiment landlords responding to emails treated Blacks, Arab males, Muslims, and single parents unfavorably.
[23] Almost twice as many non-Hispanic Black children have lead levels at or above 2 micrograms per deciliter compared to non-Hispanic White children.
[24] People of color are much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air. People in poverty are exposed to more fine particulate matter than people living above poverty. “results at national, state, and county scales all indicate that non-Whites tend to be burdened disproportionately to Whites.”
[25] Black children are taken into foster care at a disproportionately high rate, and stay in the system longer before they’re adopted or reunited with their parents.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0858-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0858-1
[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141854 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[3] https://www.nber.org/papers/w26774?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#fromrss https://www.nber.org/papers/w26774?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_me...
[4] https://stanford.app.box.com/v/Data-for-Change https://stanford.app.box.com/v/Data-for-Change
[5] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550616633505 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/194855061663350...
[6] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/wiener/programs/pcj/files/Police-on-Police_Shootings_with_appendices.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/wien...
[7] https://sparq.stanford.edu/opd-reports https://sparq.stanford.edu/opd-reports
[8] https://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/Document/BRP_report.pdf https://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/Document/...
[9] https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releas...
[10] https://chicagopatf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PATF_Final_Report_Executive_Summary_4_13_16-1.pdf https://chicagopatf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PATF_Fina...
[11] https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/traffic-stop-data-shows-persistent-patterns-racial-bias-according-new-report https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/traffic-stop-data-...
[12] https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_and_Wrongful_Convictions.pdf https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race...
[13] https://www.wnyc.org/story/black-kids-more-likely-be-tried-adults-cant-be-explained/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/black-kids-more-likely-be-tried-a...
[14]https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-differences-sentencing https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-d...
[15] https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/01/25/black-students-more-likely-to-be-arrested.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/01/25/black-students...
[16] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608180824.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608180824.h...
[17] https://psmag.com/education/nonwhite-school-districts-get-23-billion-less-funding-than-white-ones https://psmag.com/education/nonwhite-school-districts-get-23...
[18] https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
[19] https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes-get-more-interviews https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
[20] https://www.aclu.org/files/field_document/discrimlend_final.pdf https://www.aclu.org/files/field_document/discrimlend_final....
[21] https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-black-neighborhoods/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/devaluation-of-assets-in-...
[22] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046217302612 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01660...
[23] https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/racial-gaps-in-childrens-lead-levels/ https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/racial-gaps-in-chi...
[24] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-trump-administration-finds-that-environmental-racism-is-real/554315/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-tru...
[25] https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/07/14/foster-care-race?cid=id-app15_m-share_s-web_cmp-app_launch_august2020_c-producer_posts_po-organic https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/07/14/foster-c...
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- torstenvl 5y agoI read a couple of these. I was not impressed. For example, you claimed that "Unarmed black people are 3.49 times as likely to be killed as unarmed white people. Local crime rates have zero effect on this statistic." This is false for two reasons. First, this is an analysis of police-involved killings alone, and is not the society-level indictment you suggested. Second, the data for police-involved killings comes solely from those reported on by the media. Since the media overreports on police killings of black Americans (e.g., George Floyd) and underreports on police killings of white Americans (e.g., Timothy Coffman, Tony Timpa), this is highly suspect. You also claimed that it's "actual racism" that... the ratios of stops that turn up contraband and stops that don't turn up contraband occur "at the same rate regardless of race." How is it "actual racism" not to target a racial minority out of proportion to genuine suspicion? You claim that disproportionate cross-racial shootings of off-duty police officers is due to "actual racism," but the study you cite says the disparity is likely due to unconscious biases rather than racial animus. Problems of fear-conditioning and P200/N200 overmatch are problems, but they have a different solution than the problem of police departments filled to the brim with racists. I was interested by the stereotypically black name versus stereotypically white name study, but was deeply disappointed that it didn't study that question. Instead, it seemed as though the study were deliberately trying to blur the lines between race and class. Why compare "Jamal" to "Emily" or "Greg" instead of "Dakota"?
- hkt 5y agoFiercely well researched answer. Well done.
- visarga 5y agoYou say anti-racism is all OK, nothing to worry about. Why is race above all other factors the criteria for which we judge discrimination? Why ignore the differences between people of the same race and emphasize differences between races? By choosing race as the primary lens you discriminate against other kinds of injustice and oversimplify the real problem. Anti-racism is placing ideology above reason, a tactic also used by nationalism, communism and inquisition. Don't want to give up the right to think differently, but anyone can try to persuade me if they have the arguments. I'd love if anti-racists would stop spreading the idea that people of different origins can't be trusted and that everything is twisted and biased against your group, that's very damaging to society. It doesn't acknowledge that races collaborate and share a lot of what they have best, it tries to undermine communication itself.